Events

Equip yourself with the tools and understanding required to make successful funding and grant applications. Designed to help you understand the different types of funding applications, how to research and select the right ones for your organisation and write effective bids.

We’ll explore the stages in securing funding through grants and how you can optimize your chances of getting past each hurdle. Learning how to avoid commonly made mistakes.

You will also have the opportunity to meet with a range of funders and discuss upcoming grant applications and funding opportunities.

Aimed at VCS organisations in London, with funder opportunities focused on issues of tackling poverty, and supporting children and young people in London.

The event explored how employment support for those seeking to enter employment and for those seeking to progress out of low paid work, can contribute to reducing child poverty in London. In particular, it will look at the role local authorities, the voluntary sector, and the GLA can play in joint working to improve services to many of London’s disadvantaged groups. We asked:

1.What do inequalities in employment rates, and progression look like across the capital and how does it impact on families?

2.Given the rollout of Universal Credit will be changing the conditionality for many low paid workers, as well as job seekers – what are the London-specific challenges and opportunities to address support and training needs for particular groups?

To coincide with the is the UN Day for the Eradication of Poverty on 17th of October, 4in10 held the first ever London Challenge Poverty Week. Organisations large and small supported London Challenge Poverty Week to celebrate the breadth and creativity of solutions to poverty that we see in London, provoke conversations about how poverty can be overcome – and show our capital coming together to challenge how poverty is constraining our families.

The main aims of the week are to:

Increase visibility of the reality of poverty in London

Encourage positive debate and discussion about poverty

Show what is being done to tackle poverty & the solutions we know exist.

The following events were held:

MONDAY 15

Working Well? Young job seekers and Jobcentre Plus in London Policy recommendation roundtable held by 4in10 and the Young Women’s Trust.

The research explored the role of Jobcentre Plus in the lives of young jobseekers. It looks at whether the Government’s flagship Youth Obligation scheme addresses the specific needs of young job-seekers by providing appropriate, personalised, employment-focused support that enables young people to enter secure, quality employment. The research using London as a case study and made recommendations. Download the report.

TUESDAY 16

Behind Closed Doors

End Hunger UK exhibition in the House of Commons to raise awareness of the nature, scale, causes and experiences of food insecurity in Britain today. The exhibition was displayed in support of Emma Lewell-Buck's Food Insecurity Bill, calling for a government led measurement of household food insecurity in the UK.

End Hunger UK Campaign Conference 2018 On World Food Day, October 16th 2018, the End Hunger UK campaign convened its second annual conference in Westminster to discuss the growing movement around household food insecurity in the UK. A panel led by Church Action on Poverty reported research by JRF and the FrameWorks Institute into effective ways to shift public discourse about poverty. More.

Young parents: flexible working, childcare and training - Young Parents event at GLA,Partnership for Young London.

This event, led by a group of young parents, examined what can be done in London to provide more flexible opportunities to those seeking employment. Following on from the report, Young Parents in London: Living with Precariousness, this event is suited to those who work with young parents, especially in relation to employment.

The event heard the voices and expertise of those on the frontline of London's child poverty crisis and the solutions low income families in the capital urgently need.

How meaningful participation by people with direct experience of poverty can create positive social change.ATD Fourth Worldorganised a two-part event, led by people with lived experience of poverty including a panel discussion, a commemoration with messages and music.

London Child Poverty Summit.

The Childhood Trust, in partnership with the London School of Economics UN Society, Hosted the event to share, discuss and document the challenges facing disadvantaged children in London.THURSDAY 17

The move to Universal Credit is leaving many low-income households short of money and in need of help. This event looked at how local authorities can support local residents when money is tight, and prevent them from falling into debt or destitution.